St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-29
MORNING, 2

lumber yard, flour mill. elevator, 10000
bushels of grain, 1000 barrels of flour.
planning mill and furniture factory.
Their loss alone is $3.50, 200. Singer,
Rockwell & Co., of Milwaukee, are
heavy losers, having an entire seasons
cut of fine lumber destroyed. Aid in
the shape of provisions and clothing is
being received at Marshfield. There
are not enough roofs left standing to
shelter the homeless, and people are
camping in the fields and woods.
1T Is NOW ESTIMATED
that the loss resulting from the deStruc-
ton of the city of Marshfield will not be
less than S3,000,0GG, and may be nearly
S3,500,00Q, The heaviest losers are tue
Upham Manufacturing company, whose
loss is approXimated at SS00,00O; Sanger,
Rockwell & Co., of Milwaukee, $780, 200,
representing whole seasons cut of
lumber; Fremont Hotel company, s.. 500;
Wagner IL Upham, general store and
block, $4,000; MarShfield bank, 200.
There are about 1000 losing amounts
averaging from $500 to $4,000. Twelve
solid blocks of stores were destroyed.
A dispatch tonight says that the fire
burned until an early hour this morning
and that but one house remains un-
Scathed. Half the population is
still there, but is suffering for want
of clothing. Supplies were sent from
neighboring towns that answered the
purpose temporarily, but Mayor Upham
telegraphS that more provisions must be
sent at once or the people will suffer.
The remaining inhabitants are again
camping in the woods tonight. Owing
to the poor facilities for communication
by wire details are coming in but
slowly. 1t appears that when the fire
started there was
" A HIGH WIND
and the flames were carried with re-
markable rapidity seeming almost to
leap from house to house. Twelve
buildings were blown up with dynamite
in vain effort to check the flames.
Conductor GraysOn who brought
through the sleeper from ST. Paul on
the Central line this morning said that
the only thing to be seen at MarShfield
from where the depot used to stand was
ruins with here and there remnants of
smoke stack and some warped and
twisted machinery to show
where mill had stood. He
describes the scene as one of
awful desolation, hardly relieved by
the presence of human beings, as every
body had left or was leaving as fast as
possible. Yesterday afternoon most of
the well-tO-dO people left for Chippewa
Falls and this morning two carloads of
homeless people were brought as far as
Stevens Point, the railway company
carrying them free. Mr.. GraySon de-
scribed them as sorry-loOking crowd,
with nothing but the clothes they hap
pened to have on at the time of the fire.
Some of the men had no hats, and there
was hardly woman who had any kind
of wrap or shawl, they being mostly
clothed in their ordinary dresses and
Sunday bonnets, while the children
were even worse off. being barefOoted,
bareheaded and hungry. The. Central
road has repaired it's track so that trains
can run right through again. Last
night a special had to be sent up and
passengers from above walked around
the burned town to come through.
GENEROUS OSHKOSH.
Special to the, Globe.
OSHKOSH, Wis, June 2S.-As soon as
possible after hearing the news of tie
burning of Marshfeld this morning,
Mayor Dale contributed from the city
funds for the benefit of the sufferers
$500, Senator Sawyer and son gave $500,
and other citizens sums ranging from
$50 to $40, making a purse of nearly
81 1000. A car was loaded with provis-
iOus, contributed by citizens, and was
shipped north tonight. Mayor Dale
and other gentlemen left with the car.